Main identification features
- front: red-brown
- body: ~8 red and yellow bars
- double stripe: snout and eye
Dorsal rays X,12; anal rays III,7; pectoral rays 16; lateral-line scales 47-50; body depth 3.6-3.7 in standard length.
Head bluish brown with pair of red-orange stripes on snout and behind eye; about eight bars on side of body, these red on upper half and bright yellow below; bars may coalesce to form more or less solid red area, in which case the yellow portions have the appearance of a row of vertically elongate rectangular blotches; a whitish bar across tail base; base of caudal fin red.
Size: grows to at least 8.5 cm.
Inhabits sand-rubble fringe of reefs.
Depth: 10-35 m.
Cocos and Malpelo Islands.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 35 m.
Depth Range Min: 10 m.
Diet: octopus/squid/cuttlefish; bony fishes; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=6; Southern limit=4; Western limit=-88; Eastern limit=-82; Latitudinal range=2; Longitudinal range=6.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Corals; Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 8.5 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); TEP endemic; TEP oceanic island (s) endemic; Multiple oceanic islands endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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